<p>Oooo what conference, astronomy conference? Did you present your paper?</p>
<p>Thanks GuitarMan - the other one still needs good luck, but I'm sure there will be good choices to be had for all in April!</p>
<p>Corranged -- Yay! :)</p>
<p>By the way, you need as much TV discipline to follow a season of 24 as a crackhead needs smoking discipline. It's addictive!!</p>
<p>PorSK--The 207th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. It was mega-fun ;) I presented a poster there at one of the poster sessions based on my more recent research, the one that I submitted to Siemens/Intel and will write up for publication sometime in the faaaar far future :p</p>
<p>I was thinking of attending the conference at which our research is being presented, but I'm scheduled to get my wisdom teeth out around that time. :(</p>
<p>Ah, that sucks! Presenting at a conference is huge. I know I was one of two HS students at this conference and the same applies to most fields. Just being on research there (as first author, I'm assuming?) is a huge honor and you should be proud ;)</p>
<p>Haha. Nice comparison. Any girls in it to make it worth watching? ;)</p>
<p>Guitar, I doubt I'd be doing any presenting. I'm almost certain I'm third on the paper. I was just thinking of going for the experience.</p>
<p>Oh hells yes!! Well, one of them actually got offed yesterday, sadly, but 24's history is absolutely littered with pretty girls. The evilest ones tend to be the hottest :)</p>
<p>Sounds like my kind of girls. ;)</p>
<p>There were some hot lesbian prostitutes in the first season, but they both died.</p>
<p>PorSK--Not true!! One of them, Mandy actually came back twice. She was the one who tried to assasinate Palmer at the end of the second season, and she took Tony hostage at the end of last season. Palmer didn't like doing it once he found out who she was, but in the end he relented and pardoned her for all of her crimes, in return for her revealing Marwan's location. So, now she's oot and aboot, and will probably be back sometime this season :p</p>
<p>And ahh, that sucks that you wouldn't have been presenting. But still, it's a really cool opportunity either way :)</p>
<p>Well, I did get to present internally to the CTO and a bunch of people in my department. Working for a company is a bit different from working alone, in that sense. I did appreciate the experience, though I'm sure it'd be different at a conference.</p>
<p>And I'm sorry, I don't follow 24 that much. I tried the first two seasons, but I find that I miss one episode and then everything stops making sense and I take weeks to figure out what's going on. :(</p>
<p>Sounds like maybe I should check it out, but, I'm not a TV kind of girl, really. :)</p>
<p>PorSK--Did you do Intel??</p>
<p>And yeah, but I find going a week without 24 to be very difficult anyway, so I'm not worried about possibly missing an episode :p</p>
<p>Nope, didn't do Intel. I don't think I was eligible with the research I'm talking about, haha. Plus, I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough to conduct my own research. I really wouldn't have known where to start. I saw the internship as an opportunity to gain experience more than an opportunity to get research. I'm impressed with anyone who can conduct solitary research.</p>
<p>Well, "solitary research" is a very rare thing and not always a good thing ;) Research, especially for students, is almost always collaborative and that makes the process that much more efficient. I mean, I did all of the work on my own and the analysis was mostly me (although there was some very important help from a scientist I work with at Caltech), but obviously were it not for my mentor I'd be nowhere :p I'm curious, could you PM me some details of what you did and where?</p>
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<p>I agree, in modern science, there are no Galileos. It's become too complicated for true solitary research. Almost everyone works on a team and scientists share responsibilities. I was only the second or maybe third most important researcher, though, and that's really what I mean; I didn't have to "guide" the project.</p>
<p>heh, but guiding the research is the funnest part! :)</p>
<p>I was involved in decision making, but I don't think I would feel secure being the person who people looked to for major decisions because I wasn't an expert in the area before actually performing the research. Maybe I'd be able to now. In this particular area, it wasn't really practical at first.</p>